Saturday, November 5, 2016

We got ready for
trick or treaters, but we didn’t have very many come.

Walt treated the first
trick or treaters.

These are our Bishop’s
darling children.

These are our Bishopric Counselor's darling daughters...

This little girl really
liked our witch trick-or-treat bowl.

And the rest of the trick or treaters we didn't really know...

Fun night to have and to have over...

Tuesday – November 1,
2016

Walt and I wanted to go to
the temple on the first day that President Paul and Sister Susan Young began
their three years as our new Temple President and Temple Matron.

I took a photo of Walt...

Then he took a photo of me. . .

It was very touching to be
with them on one of the highlight days of their lives.Paul Young has been Bishop of the Seventh Ward, the Stake President who
followed Walt, and then Patriarch.He is
the great grandson of Brigham Young.He
is very humble and very spiritual, as is his wife, Susan.They are both perfect for this calling.

Paul Young, Temple President

of the Twin Falls Idaho Temple

Susan Pearson Young, Temple Matron

of the Twin Falls Idaho Temple

November 1, 2016 to November 1, 2019

The First Counselor and Assistant to the Temple Matron arePresident Steve Tuft and Sister Susan Tuft, BurleyThe Second Counselor and Assistant to the Temple Matron arePresident Hendrickson and Sister Hendrickson, Jerome(I don't have their first names. But I think it is President Hendrickson's father who was in the Jerome Stake Presidency when we grew up in that Stake (some of the time called the Gooding Stake, and now we have a Wendell Stake).Maybe we will have a photo of the new Temple Presidency and the Temple Matron and her Assistants soon.

Wednesday – November 2,
2016

Elizabeth
“Lizzy”

“7”November
2, 2016

Lizzy is behind Adam who is in the orange shirt.

We still went to the
temple on our regular day of Wednesday to rendezvous with Dale and Connie.

Today the instruction film
was my favorite of the four, even though they are all wonderful. Quoting from the official Church statement to the Deseret News about these temple films:

SALT LAKE CITY — July 2014 - A year after the LDS Church began using a new
film for temple instruction for the first time in 20 years, and six months
after introducing a second, a third new film is in rotation.

The latest film presentation began showing Tuesday in 30 of the
143 operating temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a
church spokesman confirmed.

The new film is only in English for now. Like the others, its
use will expand to other temples around the world over time and as translations
are prepared.

The script in each of the films is the same.The films are shown
in a rotation to provide variety to temple instruction.

The church released the first of the three new films
in July 2013. That version also
was released on a smaller scale, but it is now widely used in temples around
the world in multiple languages.

Temples are reserved for the faith's highest and most sacred
ordinances, such as marriage, and making covenants with God to be more like
Jesus Christ. Because of the sacred nature of temples, they are reserved for
active church members who are observing the basic principles of the faith,
whereas weekly Sunday services in meetinghouses are open to people of all ages
and faiths.

Latter-day Saints consider temple worship sacred, so they do not
publicly share the details of temple instruction.

The church dedicated and opened new temples in March 2014 in Gilbert,
Arizona, and in May 2014 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

The public is invited to tour temples before they are dedicated.
The renovation of the Ogden Utah Temple is nearly complete, and a public open
house is scheduled to run from Aug. 1 to Sept. 6, 2 014 except for Sundays.

Several new temples are under construction and could have open
houses in the next 18 months, including the Phoenix Arizona Temple, the Rome
Italy Temple, the Payson Utah Temple, the Cordoba Argentina Temple and the
Provo City Center Temple.

Eileen's note: I didn't know that by copying this article, it would also copy the link to more information about temples and what is done in them. I had seen it once before, but just watched it again. It's a great 15-minutes worth of your time if you would like to know more. Just click the link right above this paragraph. Elder Robert Walker who narrates it was the Executive Director of the Temple Department a few years ago when this video was made. He is now an emeritus General Authority and I think he and his wife are living back in Boise.(Into the film just before 5:30 minutes it shows the instruction room of the Twin Falls Temple with the beautiful full wall mural of Shoshone Falls.)

Eileen's additional note: Currently there are 4 films rotated in temple instruction. Each temple presidency chooses how to rotate them. In the Twin Falls Temple, a different film is shown each day: A-the 1990 film; B-the July 2013 film; C-the Jan. 2014 film, and D-the July 2014 film. As stated in the above article:

"The script in each of the films is the same.The films are shown in a rotation to provide variety to temple instruction."

It was my turn to choose
where to have dinner. I felt like just having a steak and baked potato. I asked Dale and Connie which restaurant in
Twin had the best steaks. They felt like
it was Jacker’s. Jaker's also has great trout.

That’s where we
went. Walt and I had a delicious 6 ounce
sirloin steak.

Thursday – November 3,
2016

This was a stay-at-home
day for me. Walt was able to get a great hair
cut from Bob Beaver, then he got the oil changed in the car getting it ready
for the drive to Utah tomorrow.

We realized that we needed
to leave earlier than we thought for driving to Utah, so we called Kathleen to
cancel our two-hour family history session tomorrow.

Friday – November 4,
2016

We were able to be
packed and on our way to Utah by 11:20, but after we got a few blocks we had to
turn around and get a couple of things we forgot, so we were actually on the
road by about 11:45.

We pulled in to Julie and
John’s at 3:30. The kids were home from
school. We got to talk with Julie and
John a while before Jackson went to his karate class.

This evening was their
ward Fall Festival. It was chili and
soups, rolls ‘n breads, plus dessert.
All was delicious. There was a
carnival in the side rooms for the kids, run by the Young Men and Young Women.

For entertainment in the
cultural hall ‘50s songs were played,
plus a big karaoke was set up.

Today was the big day for
William Joseph Petersen. He was baptized
by his Dad, David.

Here is their family...David and Julie, Josh, Anna, Samuel, and William.

William with his two Grandfathers--Walt Petersen and Brent Black...

William with those from the Petersen and the Black families...

I'll add more photos when I get them from Julie, and David and Julie...

And I’ll try to scan in the beautiful printed program.

Bishop Nathan Savage was
very complimentary to David and Julie and their family.

Ten-year-old Sam felt the spirit so strongly when he was giving his talk about baptism that he had a hard time keeping the tears back. That set the great spiritual tone for the entire time of the baptism.William, we are so proud of your choosing to be baptized!Everyone was wanting to stand by William for a photo, so 2-y-o Rigdon ran over to be by his cousin, too.

A delicious luncheon was served at their home following the baptism.

David and Gary did a careful job of getting the fruit tray turned out of its top cover and positioned just right.

Fun desserts were sugar cookies in the shape of "8" and "CTR" designs.

Everyone pitched in and helped.It was very colorful with Autumn oranges, greens, and yellows...

We took Isaac home,
changed clothes, then headed over to John and Julie’s to watch the BYU football
game.

After this we went to
Jackson’s karate demonstration.

While Julie and John went
to dinner to celebrate their 17th anniversary, we went with Gary to a new
Chuck-a-rama.

We spent the rest of the evening with Gary at his home and enjoyed talking with him for a couple of hours. When we talked about Einstein's theory of relativity E = mc2, plus our universe and the billions of other universes my mind was spinning. We also talked about what David had said that the parables of Christ being mostly symbolic, plus a lot of other symbolic references. It makes me sad that there probably wasn't an actual "apple" that Eve ate, and there really isn't an "actual" Tree of Life with actual fruit--it's all symbolic. I want it to all be real. At least we know there is a real live Heavenly Father and HisSon Jesus Christ...which Walt and I will testify of at the end of the Sabbath Day.

Here's what Julie said to John on her fb post:"Happy 17th wedding anniversary and 10th temple-versary! From "flipping around", scaring me constantly, crying through commercials, sharing that special smile while watching our children, debating, discussing, dancing (oh the dancing!), role playing different scenarios (being blind) and all the rest. Thanks for all the wonderful love and memories and to all that is yet to come. With you, I just knew...still do. Me too honey, me too. Lover you."

Julie and John, We hope you have had a great day.We love you!

For the Sabbath Day, we left Pleasant Grove at 6:03 this morning and pulled in to our driveway at 9:21.

We listened to the Tabernacle Choir special Patriotic broadcast while we were getting ready for our 10:50 to 1:50 Church block.It is always an honor and responsibility to partake of the Sacrament in remembrance of the Savior, and to renew our baptismal covenants each Sunday.

We had 11 bear fervent testimonies during our Fast and Testimony meeting--

About Us

Walt was born in Wendell, Idaho,and has lived in Idaho 64 of his 83 years. Eileen was born in the Twin Falls Idaho Hospital going home to Wendell from there, and have lived in Idaho for 56 of my 78 years. Married June 14, 1961 in Salt Lake Temple. We thank our children and grandchildren for the wonderful 50th Wedding Anniversary Celebration they hosted for us in June 2011. We went on a Mediterranean cruise (thanks again to our children) to celebrate our 50th--a year early to be with D. Kelly Ogden as he lectured "In the Footsteps of Paul the Apostle." We have lived in St. Louis,MO, Minneapolis,MN; Talihina,OK; Burley,IDAHO 42 years, 3 years in Merida, Mexico;2 years in Guatemala City, Guatemala; 18 mos in Argentina,Oct 2008 to Mar 2010; and 3 years as temple president and matron of the new (dedicated Aug 21, 2011) San Salvador El Salvador Temple for--July 2011 to Nov 1, 2014. We love and adore each other, our 7 children, their spouses, and our 35 grandchildren.
Walt is a physician, I was a medical secretary for PHT, then homemaker and mother.
We are staunch Republicans.